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r WARREN liOGlE New York Times Sen/ice [Ty/stone, England would hardly occur tosornei rne looking for exhibitionists to ome to the Yorkshire Dales vil- of .iiylstone, a picture-perfect ctidrr of cottages and a duck i or .road between Skipton Kctt ,.ri. ,rch less would someone seek 1 out among the sisterhood of Women's institute, a whole-- : rural service organization in for "jam and Jerusalem" i mine--bottled preserves from sh country kitchens and the * poem enshrining "England's rand pleasant land." it provoked some wide-tryed 3st. when word went forth from rasim'al place that ll_members -Ryistorre and District Chapter :Women's institute, ages 45 to ad decided to substitute the images of watery sunsets and 5 paths bursting with butter-- on their annual calendar with es themselves with no is or . what proved even more sur-- g than the event was the re» e to it. ' _ women had come. up wrth tendon-getting notion as .a f raising money for leukemia Ch, a mission that tookvlonar mt urgency afterthe'héts of their members LILl 0 [I19 "my hoped that ry m~ - J. 1, Hugh, sales oi ne of tilt" "ml , I ,, .1 1m- rnlgtt react 12 calent _ i had $790,000. I .ltrcflC Xjected reaction, nother'uncnéuflet and taste? alcndal: I'llflgGJneChanic d--up of I lfoiljin mailsands of , broughL "(11va women l""':],,fl;lcr-errrry mm min"! at ' . - rat re-- all1 ihe village W""""' 1 ' "1' self- their own llaggtrg I and it doesn't ['1' in Our 505, to Freud, great-grandson of Sigmund ireud, who is the moment's hottest celebrity public--relations man in iorkshire st The members of an leukemia English village Women's Institute, research with their own full- bother us, and that seemed to come across," said Tricia Stewart, co< owner with her husband ofa med~ icai-sol'tware firm. She introduces herself these days as Miss October. "Just to say, how absolutely bloody marvelous!" wrote a Bristol woman in her mid/10s. "I have no intention of reaching my 505, 605, 705 or more and lying down for the rest ofrny life, and i know that alot of other women out there need to see that they aren't expected to ei< ther." A letter from Liverpool said, "it nrakes'us oldies feel better about ourselves -- quite uplifted, in fact." A man from the Orkney islands in northern Sr'utlzmti said thn m . had enabled him to convince his 47-year»old wife that a recent rnasA tectoniy didn't make her "any less desirable," And another man exuited, "How wonderful to see real women instead ofstick insects with pouty lips and pipe cleaners for legs," ' _ The women, who call then fund raising effort the Calendar Girl Campaign, have seen their own daily calendars fill up With EVCUlS ranging from agriculture and amusement fairs to network televi- sion interviews to, the annual Woman of the Year dinner in Lon- don and modeling appearances on tile catwalks of fall fashion week. Like all successful enterprises, they started a 'Web site [www.daeinet.net/ryistonewi/). Royal courtiers in London, hear- ing the Women were in town, in~ vited tirern to Buckingham Palace to hand-deliver calendars for the Queen and the Queen Mother to a gold»braided dishy young chap," confided An- gela Baker, 54 (Miss February). equerry.- "A reail But none ofrit seems to have gone their heads. When Matthew monty charity calendar. flower in every frame, a syrnboi that commemorates Joim Baker, who busicd himself planting sunflower seeds during his illness but didn't live to see them bloom. London, invited them in to discuss corporate sponsorship, they giee~ fully told him they had never heard of him. "The whole time," Ms. Baker said, "I thought his name was Floyd." They also won't be doing another , calendar. "We couldn't repeat the success, and we'd lose the novelty,"- said Moyra Livesey (Miss May), a 51»year-old nursing-home man-- ager. The women first thought up their daring venture in 1997, a time, they said, before any of them had heard about The Full Monty, the hit him about a group of men who bare it all in nearby Sheffield. "We partly did it out of devilnrcnt," said Lynda Logan (lv'lihs July), a 56-year old painter. "But the top and bottom of it was that we were so shocked by John's death that we would have done anything to draw attention to the tragedy of his illness." John Baker, 54, a national park officer in the Yorkshire Dales, died in July 1998, only five months after faliirrg ill. ' Their plan was to have Ms. Log- an's husband, Terry, a former pro-- fessional photographer, set up the shot, then duck into a side room while she snapped the shutter. But on the day of the shoot itself, the women overcame their inhibitions with generous amounts of red wine and let Mr. Logan, (ii, go ahead and do the whole job himself. "We're all great friends, so there was no emi barrassment," Ms. Livesey said. ."in fact, watching each other covering ourselves strategically with -sreves whites and jodhpurs across Britain, the onl moment low against the 1 bottom, clad only i brief, held high in ti waved. yie - aged 45-66, hoped to raise $2,800 for They raised $790,000 The calendars were a hit from the moment they were published in April, and no objections came even from quarters the women were waly of. Their husbands and chil- dren all applauded their initiative, and the chairman of the parish council said only, "well, i've seen more than that over the garden fence." Reporter's from the London tab-- loids who showed up with money to p s out for gossip found no one , to spend it on. A television inter-- viewer, frustrated that not even the local ehurclrman had a bad word to say about the appearance of strip-- pers in his flock, said, "So will it be Metimti t mir'n t posing this way next?" . "No," the Rev. Keith Hopper re»_ sponded. "They'll pay us to keep ottr clothes on." Tire urge to bare all has now spread to other organizations around England, many with causes of the same traditional bent as the Women's institute. Those stripping for charity have included Country» side Alliance chapters, pro--hunting groups, sports CIUDS, farmers from Devon, chefs in Suffolk, a Royal Air [Force pilot learn, a fi r brigade in suburban Manchester and mesh Watkins Williams--Wymr's Hunt in Cl'S Cheshire, which Prince Charles has often ridden with. With all this-Shedding of cricket going on y reported of embarrassment - oc- - and plants and apple presses and E'lrlléillly'l L<Hillitrysrde outside tirelike was tremendous fun." "3'45 I 1&1." ' eatrm Shropshire The women maintain their Wom- Di'Vld "ighdniv 41, Ell] Editor of a en's institute image by wearing lmvm'SUi'POIters magazmCy Was 3' .pearls in all the shots. The pictures bemg 'lel'tigraphed "guide a are in black and white, except for mountain bike driving [Weer the presence Ofa brightyciiow sun-- across a stream with his y arms bet 7 t It randle bars and his 11 a black 13' ' i . rk ' \(3 all u" seeing a passing neighbou , r, he